A Well-Filled Medicine
Chest Should Of Course Not Be Forgotten.
A good field glass, a hunting and skinning knife or
two, and a Kodak with about 200 films should also be
carried.
With regard to the last item, I should strongly
advise all who intend to take photographs on their trip
to pay a visit to Mr. W.D. Young on arriving at Nairobi.
He is an enthusiastic photographer, and will gladly
give advice to all as to light and time of exposure; and
as these are the two points which require most attention,
hints from some one of experience in the country are
most useful. I myself am much indebted to Mr.
Young's kindly advice, and I am sure I should not have
achieved much success in my pictures without it. I
made it a practice on my last visit to the country to
send him the exposed films for development whenever
I reached a postal station, and I should recommend
others to do the same, as films deteriorate rapidly
on the voyage home; indeed I had nearly four hundred
spoiled in this way, taken when I was in the country in
1898-99.
As regards camp equipment, all that need be taken
out from England are a small double-fly tent, three
Jaeger blankets, a collapsible bath, a Wolseley valise,
and a good filter; and even these can be obtained just
as good locally. Chop boxes (food) and other necessary
camp gear should be obtained at Mombasa or Nairobi,
where the agents will put up just what is necessary.
About a month before sailing from England a letter
should be sent to the agents, stating the date of arrival
and what porters, etc., will be required.
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